Does education make people more or less religious? The previous literature offers mixed findings on the relationship between education and religiosity. This may be due to endogeneity bias: education and religiosity can be caused by a third variable such as culture or upbringing. We instrument...

Die Bundesrepublik steht vor der historischen Aufgabe, inmitten sich überlagernder Krisen und nach langem Modernisierungsstau das zu tun, was nötig ist, um auch in den kommenden Jahren Produktivität, Daseinsvorsorge und Sicherheit zu gewährleisten. Dies erfordert auch einen zielgerichteten...

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in 2006, as a natural experiment on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills. The identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences approach and exploits...